Agency is the freedom to choose. You are free to CTR or CTW, but you are not free to choose the consequences of your choices. You make choices, and then you must live with those choices.
Make good choices and enjoy freedom and happiness.
It was important to make some of these goals BIG. If we only set small goals, we will probably only achieve small goals.
Find that special girl (yes, still single)
Leave my job (without needing another!)
Have kids
Pay it forward with something big 3 times, like in the movie – but with things or services worth at least $10000
Start a school that teaches kids how to live a successful life, teaches people skills, and teaches them to think for themselves; instead of to not take chances, and only how to be an employee of someone else’s successful life
Help someone else earn enough money to no longer need a job
Get to the point of earning $1 million a year (in 2012 dollars!!)
Mentor someone into helping someone else get their time back (leave their job)
Help someone through a difficult situation in their life
Get a cottage out in the woods by a lake. Have a zip line or Tarzan rope over the water
Write a book (will probably be a mix of both freedom and leadership principles, with some economics of course)
Read 500 books on leadership and personal development
Learn how to ski … I’ve skied before, but I want to do it while knowing what I’m doing
Spend the whole Olympic Games at the winter Olympics.
Explore the ocean on a submarine
Go camping for a month with friends… will require #2 first I think
Vacation in Norway
Complete an authentic medieval knight Halloween costume (got the chain mail shirt and coif, sword and bracers already, though I would like better quality)
If you haven’t done it before… don’t – you’ll get a lot of gutter balls :)
Get to the finals in a huge board game competition (I’ve done it in the Great Canadian Board Game Blitz)
Own 100 board games (that I like to play!)
Build a Calvin & Hobbes style snowman scene
and of course.. I’ll probably do the bowling one
Take bowling lessons from a professional
Learn how to play golf
See a volcano
Go on a cruise across the Atlantic
Go on a helicopter ride
Go bungee jumping
Go hand gliding
Go to a celebration in a limousine (will be part of #4)
Ride in a hot air balloon
Drive from the 19th hole at the Legends Gold and Safari resort in South Africa
19th hole, 400 meters below the tee
Go bobsledding
Go on a Safari
Go down one of the worlds longest zip lines
Go horseback riding again, as an adult (learn how first!)
Go to Lego land
Fly on a Global Express
Walk across the Great Wall of China
Get 1000 followers on my blog (feel free to help!)
So there you have it. I can promise you one thing about this list. As time goes on, I’m sure some of these will change as somethings become more important to me than others.. for example, when I have kids, I’m sure I’ll add bringing them to Disneyland on this list. And when I accomplish #1, It will be more important for me to do things with her, that she wants to accomplish. When you make your list, don’t be afraid to make some changes. And never let everything on your list be accomplished. What I mean by that is, as you start accomplishing things, cross it off and add something else on your list to strive for; always have something to look forward to over the next horizon!
I hope this encourages you to start a list of your own if you haven’t already done so, and maybe even give you some ideas. Do you have anything crazy I didn’t include here? let me know, maybe I’ll change the list sooner than I thought!
The US retailer giant Walmart Inc has announced it will no longer sell electronic cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery products at its US stores due to reports of vaping-related lung disease and deaths.
According to an internal company memo sent out to Walmart employees on Friday and seen by Reuters, the retailer is concerned with the growing teenage interest in vape-smoking, as well as the alarming number of reports on cases of vaping-related lung disease and deaths.
PRACTICE and you can develop any of your skills and talents: Skateboarding, Reading, Writing, Listening, Blog Posting, Playing a musical instrument, Choosing the Right.
Knowledge: "It makes you into a more valuable person. The more knowledge you have, the more people need you. It's an interesting phenomenon, but when people need you, they pay you, so you'll be okay in life.
Books: "They are the mechanism for obtaining knowledge, as opposed to television"
"Education is the key"
Friday, March 8, 2019
Flashcards are one of the most powerful learning tools available, and they have been proven highly effective for decades. Any subject for people of any age will benefit tremendously from learning from Flashcards. Doctors in medical school, lawyers in law school, teachers in education school all use Flashcards. Practically all the true scholars and high achievers will tell you that Flashcards pushed them to the top of high achievement. You can benefit from Flashcards and learn ANY subject, regardless of whether or not you are enrolled in a course.
IF you set your goals, work hard with determination to achieve them, THEN you will achieve them in an extraordinary way. Read your goals daily and write in your Life Planning Goals Journal at least 5 minutes each day, and you will succeed. You will become what you do and think about.
Work hard each day. Don't be idle, for idleness is a curse, and it is below the line every time.
Look at this example of a Chicago teenager who set his goals high, worked hard to achieve them, and look at him now.
Enjoy the journey by working hard toward your righteous goals.
Be true to your school. Join in and participate in school classes and extracurricular activities. Support your school and be excited to be an HPIAMer. We appreciate all those who contribute to the spirit of the school through such events as the school band. Get involved. Enjoy your high school journey. Start. Finish.
I had the special privilege, just recently, of meeting, speaking with, and listening to Scott Kunz, one of the premier marathon runners in the world. Scott has run more than 200 marathons. He has run marathons in 24 states, including a sub-3-hour finish at the Boston Marathon, and finished the prestigious Wasatch 100-Mile Solo Endurance Run 10 consecutive times. To run the 100 mile marathons, you have 36 hours to complete it. Can you imagine running a 100-Mile Marathon? And running it 10 times?
The secret to Scott's running success is cleverly nested in his training, his practices. He trains daily. His training includes running every day at least six miles. He runs at least one hour per day and from 5:00 am until 9:00 am on Saturdays. Weekly Scott runs 30-40 miles. The key to his preparation is the DAILY application of running.
Whatever goals you are desirous to achieve, if you work on them daily, like Scott works on his, then you will achieve your goals, just like Scott has achieved so many of his goals and continues to do so.
We are thankful it's over. The UTLA Strike has ended. The Union and LAUSD finally agreed upon many serious points. The purpose of the strike in the first place was for the betterment of schools leading to better education for students. Helping each student was the main motive of the strike.
Students be thankful for the HPIAM school you attend-a school where people care about you.
Jamarion Styles, from Boca Raton, Florida Big Heart--> Strong Will --> Hard Worker First to Practice --> Last to Leave
Live the Good Life --> Choose the Right 24/7
Jamarion Styles is a great example for all of us. Be thankful, be grateful, always do your best, take advantage of the opportunities you have, develop your talents and gifts. You have been blessed with many faculties of body, mind, and soul. Take advantage of these gifts by using them in doing good. Seek to live the Good Life. Follow Jamarion's example by having a big heart, strong will, hard-working ethic, being the first to class and the last to leave because your desire to learn is so great!
Don't live below your privileges. Rise to the occasion and become great!
Students, how can you achieve your Life Planning Goals? PERSIST. Persist until you do succeed at achieving each one. Persistence is supreme! Click the start button > and listen.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race."
